Book review of Stars Like Us by Stephen K. Stanford (opens in new tab)

Invent any innovative technology and it won’t be long until someone finds a way to use it to make money via base entertainment. We are talking wine, woman, and song. The same can be said of future worlds; the Emperor may have thought he had an iron grip on all his subjects, but just below the surface were more wretched hives of scum and villainy than you could shake a Lightsaber at. In Stephen K. Stanford’s Stars Like Us, the people of the universe are so hungry for a place to let loose that ...